Stingray said:
Actually, Your body will not stop producing 5-AR post-castration if you are past puberty. They have done studies to prove them. If I didn't have a big *** f*****g headache right now and the patience to search I'd post some links. But yeah, get the balls cut out if you want...tell me how it works
I don't want kids anyhow. I'll prolly just adopt one anyways. Oh yeah, adoption is a good alternative to abortion (a sorta response to another thread)
Umm actually castration will stop your hairloss cold. The fact that your body still produces 5ar is moot since there will be practically 0 testosterone to convert into DHT....
"A study of 21 adolescent and young adult males, before castration and for eight
to eighteen years afterwards, showed that after orchiectomy there was no
development of male pattern baldness (male pattern baldness) nor of any grossly recognizable
denudation of the scalp. There was no expansion of bald areas in existence at
the time of castration. At the end of the study the eunuchs, compared with intact
males of similar age, exhibited a significantly lower incidence of male pattern baldness (P=.01)
and had no further loss of coarse hairs in the pattern that in most males results
in recession of the frontal hairline (P<.01). After castration, no increase in the
number of coarse hairs was detected in bald or sparsely-haired areas of the
frontal hairline. It is concluded that the remedial value of drastic reduction in
androgenic stimulation is probably nil with regard to return of coarse hairs which
have been lost along the frontal hairline in young men. In 3 men with baldness
of the crown of the head at the time of orchiectomy, a limited increase in the
number of coarse hairs occurred after the operation in 1 but not in the others.
Further study is required to ascertain the potential for partial regrowth of coarse
hairs in subjects with late-appearing forms of male pattern baldness involving the dorsum of the
head."
And some selected passages from the body of the article:
"It was first necessary to establish that androgenic stimulation had been
markedly and permanently reduced after orchiectomy. Studies of 15 of the
eunuchs, including data obtained eight to eighteen years after castration,
showed that androgenic stimulation had not only been markedly decreased but
had remained so.
"The area of denudation did not increase after castration in any subject,
regardless of the presence or absence of bald areas at the time of orchiectomy.
"Even the usual frontal and frontoparietal recessions of the hair line failed to
appear in the 3 males who had been castrated at 15 or 16 years of age when
they still had Type 1 scalp hair. Failure of hair-line recession to develop in
these
3 males during the succeeding 16 to 17 years is noteworthy, since 94% of intact
males would have acquired bare areas on at least the anterior scalp.
"The 14 males with small frontoparietal recessions at the time of orchiectomy
did not acquire bare areas on the crown of the head
or further extensions of frontal...recessions of the hairline.
"In the 3 subjects who had acquired male pattern baldness before orchiectomy no new nor
expanded bare areas developed after castration.
"Regions of the scalp which are in the process of becoming bald, or are
adjacent to bald areas, tend in intact males to be most susceptible to spread of
baldness. The present observations clearly indicate that after castration such
regions are no more prone to...male pattern baldness than are other portions of the scalp."
